Recruitment Business Partner

Job Description

We’re looking for a Recruitment Partner to join our People team in Milton Keynes. This exciting role will help shape and deliver an end to end recruitment service to attract and hire the best sales and leadership talent on the market in the most timely and cost effective manner. You will be partnering with leadership teams across the UK to support in a wide range of recruitment activities from headhunting, talent pooling, upskilling managers to working on a wide variety of projects to enhance our recruitment offering to the business.

Key responsibilities of the Recruitment Partner:

• Provide a dedicated recruitment service for teams across the UK.
• Direct source candidates via headhunting, CV database searching, LinkedIn etc.
• Support hiring managers with training such as interview skills, using the recruitment system, online testing and assessment centres etc.
• Help to organise and run recruitment open days and events.
• Set up and maintain active talent pools to ensure a pro-active recruitment service.
• Work closely with key business stakeholders.
• Provide regular and insightful MI and reporting.
• Create and deliver attraction campaigns with particular focus on social media presence.

Experience & skills required to be successful as a Recruitment Partner:

• In-house recruitment experience or relevant agency background.
• Experience of talent pooling, recruitment reporting and MI.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
• Knowledge of a variety of selection and assessment methods including structured interviews, assessment centres, online testing and psychometric testing.
• Strong IT skills including working with an ATS and excellent MS Office skills.
• Great organisation, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Experience of supporting a multi-site branch/store based regional network advantageous.

Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide.  Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions.

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Connells Group we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t fit perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

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